Dealing With Difficult Students
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Open Workshop: 

Dealing With Difficult Students
Practical Strategies for Success with Defiant, Defeated & Other At-Risk Kids


Date: 26 October 2015, Monday

Venue: To be confirmed


Time: 9.00am to 5.00pm


Workshop Synopsis

We all know who they are: The unmotivated student who performs below his capabilities. The student with weak social skills who has a hard time getting along with her peers. The non-traditional learner who has a hard time with the academic demands of the classroom. The disruptive student whose misbehaviors and bad attitude make our work even more difficult. The quiet child who fades into the woodwork. The one who can't stay awake in class. Suspicious kids. Defensive kids. Indifferent kids. And kids who want to do well but just can't seem to get it together.

This program offers dozens of effective, classroom-proven strategies to help you reach a wide range of students— all the while minimising stress in the classroom environment!

Topics include creating win-win authority relationships, making success possible for all students, accommodating a wide range of learning behaviors and academic abilities, making a connection, increasing positivity, changing the school culture, supporting the needs of non-traditional learners and putting the fun back in teaching!

These are techniques that can work with all kids at any grade level, but are especially appropriate for students who are particularly challenging.


Learning Outcomes:

Participants will learn:

  • Simple, practical ways to avoid power struggles
  • How to defuse conflict and in-your-face challenges
  • How to engage kids who have all but given up
  • How to eliminate passivity and helplessness
  • Key elements on improving parent involvement and support
  • Ways to build student responsibility, commitment and self-management


Target Audience
Classroom teachers of all levels, staff developers, teachers of leadership programs and institutes, and leaders of school systems


Jane Bluestein PhotoAbout the Trainer - Dr Jane Bluestein
Dr Jane Bluestein has worked with thousands of educators and parents on the topic of positive adult-child relationships, particularly with regard to children at risk. She has appeared internationally as a speaker and talk-show guest, including appearances as a guest expert on CNN, National Public Radio and The Oprah Winfrey Show.

Dr. Bluestein is an award-winning author of numerous articles and books, including Creating Emotionally Safe Schools, 21st Century Discipline, Being a Successful Teacher; Parents, Teens, & Boundaries; Mentors, Masters & Mrs. MacGregor (Stories of Teachers Making a Difference); The Parent's Little Book of Lists (Do's & Don'ts of Effective Parenting), High School's Not Forever, and a Gratitude Journal entitled Magic, Miracles & Synchronicity. Her latest book is entitled The Win-Win Classroom.

Jane has been a classroom teacher, crisis-intervention counselor, teacher training program coordinator and volunteer with high-risk teens.

"I'm able to offer practical "take-away" strategies to improve student behavior, classroom climate, student engagement, measurable achievement, school community, home-school relations, AND look at ways to grow your career and manage stress and burnout." Jane Bluestein

Meet Dr Jane Bluestein here by clicking this video link

 


Information on Registration

Workshop Fee for Open Workshop

S$250.00 per participant. If 2 or more participants from the same school/organization attend the same workshop, the discounted fee will be S$200.00 per participant for that particular workshop. Fees are subject to GST and include all training materials, 2 tea breaks and a lunch

Click here to register online for the workshop

Closing date: 31 July 2015, Friday

 

School/Cluster Based Workshop Registration
Dates available for booking: 28, 29, 30 October 2015

Please contact Joseph Loy at tel: (65) 6363 0330 or email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it on the cost of engaging the trainer to deliver the workshop.

Please indicate your preferred date in the School/Cluster-Based Registration Form but this is subject to availability.

The school/cluster will need to provide the venue, refreshments, logistics, materials and printing of handouts.

Click here to download the School/Cluster-Based Workshop Registration Form.

 

Other Information

  • Registration is on a first-come-first serve basis. Register early to avoid disappointment.
  • No refunds will be made for cancellations or in the case of absentees.
  • The Academy accepts replacements for registered participants who are unable to attend for whatever reasons.
  • Principals Academy reserves the right to cancel or postpone the course/seminar due to unforeseen circumstances or if the workshop registration fall below 30pax.
  • Principals Academy also has the right to reject any registration.
  • A full refund of the workshop fee will be made in the event of cancellation or postponement by the organiser.